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Conditional Formatting

t_venet
Registered: Dec 13 2006
Posts: 12

When designing an interactive form (via Adobe Live Cycle?), can you tweak things a bit. What I'd like to see is to be able to have values in my fields displaying as I want them to be when they meet some criterion: e.g., if a check-box is ticked, then to have it display the check-mark/cross/whathaveyou in red; or perhaps to have all checkboxes when unticked displaying their contents (be it blank) in red and only when selected, display the check/cross/whathaveyou in say green? I think you begin to get the idea. This is sometimes referred to as 'conditional formatting' when using other software applications.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Absolutly you can do this, but only with scripting. Here's a Adobe blog entry by FormBuilder which shows all the basic code for manipulating form field appearances.

[url=http://blogs.adobe.com/formbuilder/2007/03/working_with_borders.php]http://blogs.adobe.com/formbuilder/2007/03/working_with_borders.php[/url]

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

cf09
Registered: May 12 2009
Posts: 3
i'd like to receive my completed online forms in the same formatting. Right now, I just get data from completed forms as an .xml email attachment.